"Not just gadgets, we can also use these things to make some interesting things, such as handkerchiefs used to wipe certain precious items, or the lining of some pockets or boxes used to hold jewelry.
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Obviously, as a hereditary nobleman, the Viscount of Surrey definitely had much more experience in this area than Lawrence, and he soon came up with many uses for this new material that Lawrence had not thought of before.
"You know, rich people also have very high requirements for the outer packaging of luxury goods when they buy those luxury goods." Seeing Lawrence's expression of sudden realization, Viscount Surrey continued.
"So we can definitely make a lot of money by selling some peripheral products related to luxury goods. Making clothing is not the only way out."
"As expected of Earl Sauer, who developed a desert island into a prosperous place in a short period of time." When Viscount Surrey finished speaking, the dwarf Huck looked at Lawrence and said.
"But even so, I never imagined that you could come up with a development method that fully meets our local conditions in such a short period of time."
"It's just a coincidence." Lawrence shrugged.
"If I hadn't encountered this kind of incident before, I wouldn't have much to do now. Fortunately, we recovered a large number of Loka fishmen before and happened to encounter this kind of thing, so they carry this special microorganism with them."
In fact, Lawrence usually wouldn't carry these things with him at all, or in other words, no one would normally carry a bunch of microbial culture bottles that looked like biochemical weapons.
It’s just that this time Nora felt that she was likely to be cut off from Lawrence for a long time, so before she separated from Lawrence, she specially packed it in a space bag belonging to the August family heirloom that Lawrence obtained after becoming an earl.
Full of various microorganisms cultivated by myself.
According to Nora before the two parties separated, these microorganisms contain some of his power. So if you really encounter some problems that may not be solved, you can use some of them.
Compared with the magic props or magic scrolls sold in the market, these extraordinary microorganisms blessed by Nora have stronger lethality and are more secure to use.
After both parties finished their inspection of the space and returned to the Viscount Mansion, everyone quickly focused on this emerging industry in the future.
Soon, several people calculated how many people this emerging industry could absorb and how much income it could bring to the entire territory.
"The overall money earned from producing this kind of fiber doesn't seem to be a lot, because this kind of thing requires too high a planting density." After Lawrence described in detail the previous group of Loka fish people's observations of this kind of thing.
, Viscount Surrey said with a frown.
"I didn't expect that as long as the density is a little higher, the final quality of the fiber will be significantly reduced. And if it reaches a certain level, the fungus will actually stop growing."
“So this is the reason why we positioned this thing as a luxury product from the beginning, because I and several staff from the agricultural church tried for a long time on the island, but we have not been able to find a way to increase the planting density.
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Lawrence also had a helpless expression on his face. In fact, he originally hoped to make this thing into an affordable luxury product, but later he had to give up this idea.
According to the memories of his past life in his mind, in fact, unless they are hand-produced by individuals, the unit price of those top-notch luxury goods is relatively high, but the overall profit is not high.
The real money-making of those luxury goods companies mainly comes from the most widely produced affordable luxury goods for the middle class.
For example, this is the case with the tea leaves on New Saul Island. The top-notch tea leaves are basically used to give the tea produced on New Saul Island a name and improve its quality. The real money-making ones are the ordinary ones.
High quality tea.
This is why Lawrence considered mass production after discovering this fiber, because in this era of industrialization, only those common consumer goods that can be mass-produced will have the highest profits.
The only good thing is that it is easy to cultivate this kind of fiber formed by a certain fungus, and it does not require too much manpower. Therefore, even if it can only be produced on a small scale now, it is acceptable in terms of profit.
More importantly, this industry helps the Roka fish people who were originally nomadic to settle down. It is obviously helpful to the construction of the entire New Saul Island as a whole.
"It is indeed a pity that the planting density is low, but I calculated that it can provide at least 600 people with a job in this city." Although the Viscount of Surrey said this, there was not much regret on his face.
Because in his opinion, being able to utilize this large space that gave him some headaches and recruit some residents for the city already made him happy, not to mention adding some new ones to his territory.
sustainable industry.
For a hereditary nobleman like the Viscount of Surrey, he sincerely hopes that his territory can be passed down from generation to generation.
Therefore, compared to those coal mines that will disappear once they are dug, he pays more attention to this kind of special breeding and planting industry that can develop sustainably and continuously provide jobs and profits for the territory.
This is why he is only willing to sell raw coal, but is not willing to build a coal chemical plant here.
Because if the impact of simple coal mining on the environment can be controlled, then chemical plants will cause almost irreversible damage to the region's already fragile environmental system.
For the Viscount of Surrey, who received a high level of education in Briton, he did not know that the money earned from selling finished products was definitely higher than the profit from simply selling raw materials.
If he is a capitalist, he will definitely invest in the factory, because once the mining is finished, he can leave and leave the devastated land and impoverished workers here.
But as a noble lord who owns his own territory, all kinds of losses must be borne by himself and his descendants. In this case, he would naturally rather make less money than sacrifice the future of himself and his descendants.
Of course, for such a large territory, this fungus cultivation center can only be said to be an icing on the cake, so after a night's rest, Lawrence headed to the city ten kilometers away from the city under the leadership of the Viscount of Surrey.
Visit the mining area several kilometers away.
Unlike the coal mines Lawrence had seen before, this coal mine in the Viscounty of Surrey was a very shallow open-pit mine.
According to the Viscount of Surrey, this land used to be just a small hilly area full of gravel, until a dwarf geological expedition team sent by the British government discovered the mine through sampling.
"There is only a layer of earth and stone less than 3 meters thick on top of the entire coal mine, and below it is a coal seam of more than 15 meters." Looking at the huge pit at the foot of the hillside on the roadside, the Viscount of Surrey pointed to Lawrence with a proud look on his face.
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"And the quality of the coal here is also very good, almost all of it is the highest quality anthracite."
"How many people are there now?" Lawrence turned his head and asked curiously, watching the miners lined up like ants in the black mine using trolleys and slides with ropes to transport the excavated coal blocks out of the mine.
"There are probably more than 10,000 people in this large mine alone," Viscount Surrey said after thinking for a moment.
"This mine is mainly mined by me and the Briton royal family. It is the largest coal mine in the region. At the same time, various regulations and welfare are the best. For this reason, my subjects work in the coal mine.